IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279247 accession number: PB 165-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 17 December 2020 updated: Thursday 17 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hortus sanitatis. Imprint from Goff. Red & blue decorative initials. First edition of the Hortus sanitatis, the work being "[s]ubsequent to and to a large extent independent of the 'Gart der Gesundheit', which BMC and Hain treat as a German translation of the 'Hortus sanitatis'. Both ... are, however, based upon the 'Herbarius' [1st edition 1485]."--Goff. Colophon reads: ... Quem quidem librum omni dilige[n]tia collectum [et] elaboratum. intelligibili caractere proprijs impensis Iacobus meydenbach ciuis Moguntinus lucule[n]tissime impressit ... Impressum est autem hoc ip[su]m in inclita ciuitate Moguntina ... in qua nobilissima ciuitate [et] ars ac scientia hec subtilissima caracterisandi seu imprimendi fuit primu[m] inueta ... Anno salutis Millesimo Quadringentesimo Nonagesimo primo. Die vero Iouis vicesima tercia mensis Iunij. The "Tractatus de animalibus vitam in terris ducentium [sic]," "Tractatus de auibus," and "Tractatus de urinis" have special title pages. Includes seven full-page woodcuts: a fictional meeting of eminent medieval European and Arabic medical scholars including Aristotle, Rhazes, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen. (A1v); three men observing eight animals in a zoo (n1v); two men observing birds in front of a city (v1v); two men on the banks of a river filled with fish and merpeople ([et]8v); four jewellers sitting at tables selling their wares to a crowd of six, with two men standing at a table of jewels in the background (2e2v); four physicians examining a bottle of urine in an apothecary, while three apprentices are distracted by two other apprentices fighting ([chi1]b); and two doctors with seven sick people, including 2 children (²[chi]6v); plus, 1066 smaller woodcuts of plants (530), animals (164), birds (122), fish (106), and precious stones (144). Binding: 16th century calf, blind stamped; spine blind stamped, raised bands, g. lettering; metal clasps; rebacked. Materia medica Early works to 1800. Herbals Early works to 1800. Medicine, Medieval. Botany Pre-Linnean works. Zoology Pre-Linnean works. title: PB 165-2020 NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance: bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927 (bk. label). C.W.G.V.N. (bkpl.). Ms. inscr. on t.p.: 'CWGV Nostitz'. With cutting from Bernard Quaritch's cat., no. 699. Bookseller's code(?) on back paste-down e.p. Sales cat. no. on back free e.p. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279247 DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Meydenbach, Jakob, maker: Holliday, J. R., maker: Nostitz, Christoph Wentzel, DIMENSIONS ---------- value: [453] leaves : ill, woodcuts ; 32cm (fol).